Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
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People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
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The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
